Islamic Law Contents
Islamic Law Contents
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Islamic law derives from the Koran (Q'uran) and from the Sunnah and hadith: the writings of prophets and scholars, mostly until the fall of Baghdad in 13th Century.
Islamic law: God's law or men's law?
Understanding Islamic law from a legal pluralist perspective The Qur'anic base and its application The Prophet's roles: leader, judge and guide Early Islamic law after the Prophet's death Legal developments in the early Muslim empire: the Umayyads Scholar-jurists and the Abbasids The central role of jurists:
Schools of law and competing doctrines
Shafi'i scheme to unify Muslim jurisprudence
Hadith collections and the 'Schacht controversy'
Continuing diversities after Shafi'i Judicial administration: qadis and muftis Subsidiary sources of law The purported closing of the 'gates of ijtihad' The shift towards legal reforms Turkey as a secular Muslim country Pakistani law and Islamisation
Islamic Law Resources
Within this entry the user will find links to other entries dealing with islamic law and the law of countries with a high muslim population. We chose a subdivision according to the countries. Each country was - to give the user a plus of clarity - once more subdivided in the following points:
Constitution and Basic Legal Documents
Government and Legal System Overview
Business and Investment Law
Laws and Regulations
Agreements and Treaties
Opposition and Minority Groups
Human Rights
Miscellaneous
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International Customary Law
Islamic Development Bank
Muslim Law System
Encyclopedia of Islamic Law: a Compendium of the Views of the Major Schools
Islamic Dinar
John Rawls and the Islamic Constitutional model
Legal Systems
Resources
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Further Reading
The Spirit of Islamic Law - Bernard G. Weiss
Origins And Evolution Islamic Law - Cambridge University Press
The Long Divergence: How Islamic Law Held Back the Middle East by Kuran, T., published by Princeton University Press
Islamic Law and Society. ISSN 0928-9380, Publisher: BRILL
H.A.R. GIBB (ED.), ENCYCLOPAEDIA OF ISLAM (Leiden 1999, also CD-ROM ed.)
JOSEPH SCHACHT, AN INTRODUCTION TO ISLAMIC LAW (1986)
FAROOQ HASSAN, THE CONCEPT OF STATE AND LAW IN ISLAM 40 (1981)
ASAF ALI ASGAR FYZEE, OUTLINES OF MOHAMMEDAN LAW (4th ed. 1974)
Hassan Afchar, "The Muslim Conception of Law", The Different Conceptions of the Law, 2 INTERNATIONAL ENCYCLOPEDIA OF COMPARATIVE LAW, THE LEGAL SYSTEMS OF THE WORLD: THEIR COMPARISON AND UNIFICATION 84, 98-99 (1974)
Nicholas Heer (ed.), Islamic Law and Jurisprudence (1990).
MICHEL J. VERWILGHEN, LE STATUT PERSONNEL DES MUSULMANS: DROIT COMPARÃ ‰ ET DROIT INTERNATIONAL PRIVÃ ‰ (1992).
Deprez, J., Droit international privè et conflits de civilisations. Aspects mèthodologiques (Les relations entre systèmes d'Europe occidentale et systèmes islamiques en matière de statut personnel), 211 REC. DES COURS 9 (1988)
Detmold, Michael, Provocation to Murder: Sovereignty and Multiculture, 18 SYDNEY L. REV. 1 (1997)
ELGEDDAWY, A. KESSMAT, RELATIONS ENTRE SYSTÃ ˆMES CONFESSIONNEL ET LAÃ QUE EN DROIT INTERNATIONAL PRIVÃ ‰ (1971)
ROSEN, LAWRENCE, THE JUSTICE OF ISLAM: COMPARATIVE PERSPECTIVES ON ISLAMIC LAW AND SOCIETY 200-15 (2000), Ch. 12, "Islam and Islamic culture in the courts of the United States".
FIERRO, M, REPERTORIO BIBLIOGà €FICO DE DERECHO ISLà MICO (R.B.D.I.), primera parte, Quadernos de la biblioteca islámica "Felix Maria Parega"(Madrid 1993).
Makdisi, John, Islamic Law Bibliography, 78 LAW LIBRARY J. 103 (1986)
NYAZEE, IMRAN AHSAN KHAN, BIBLIOGRAPHY OF ISLAMIC LAW: THE ORIGINAL SOURCES (1995)
Stern, William B., Bibliography of Mohammedan Law, 43 LAW LIBRARY J. 16 (1950)
ZWAINI, LAILA AL- AND RUDOLPH PETERS, A BIBLIOGRAPHY OF ISLAMIC LAW, 1980-1993 (1994)